Movies like Something Like Happiness

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Something Like Happiness (2005)
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Something Like Happiness (2005)
Original name: Štěstí
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to experience what life might be like if they could be with one another – which they seemingly can't. Or can they?
Style: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, humorous, ambiguous ending
Plot: mental illness, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, friendship, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, single parent, working class, eccentric family, psychopath, unrequited love, youth, friends, rich and poor, farm, society, infidelity, factory, down on your luck, bittersweet, santa claus, depression, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and emotional films with plots about family relations, family problems, love and romance, couples, parents and children, friendship and youth mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Something Like Happiness: Invisible Child (1999), Face (2002), Silence Like Glass (1989), Matching Jack (2010), Blame It on Mum (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Invisible Child (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A woman with two children believes she has three and her husband and oldest daughter play along with her to keep her balanced (or as close to balanced that a woman with an invisible child can be). However, when the family hires a new nanny, it is ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot: imaginary friend, youth, evil child, family relations, nanny, mental illness, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, couples, master and servant, betrayal ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
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Silence Like Glass (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot: friendship, couples, friends, artists and showbiz, forbidden love, dancer's life, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, society, love and romance, hopes, working class ...
Time: 80s
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Matching Jack (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
Style: sincere, uplifting, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Plot: infidelity, coming of age, hopes, dishonesty, friendship, parents and children, bittersweet, terminal illness, unfulfillment, life turned upside down, child illness, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Blame It on Mum (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, family problems, family in crisis, family life, parents and children, couples, society, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Harrison Montgomery (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a rundown apartment complex in San Francisco's Tenderloin, a septuagenarian seer is waiting for his final message. For decades the eccentric recluse has chronicled the phrases of the Wheel of Fortune and deciphered their hidden meaning - the ...
Style: serious, emotional, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Plot: elderly, lifestyle, friendship, follow your dream, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, buddies, love and romance, danger, poverty, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Mommy Is at the Hairdresser's (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Summer 1966. It's time to enjoy the summer holiday, total freedom. Teenage Élise discovers that the sudden departure of her mother completely disrupts the family. Her brother Coco seeks solace in the garage, building a super racing car. Her ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, coming of age, elderly lovers, youth, family life, family problems, couples, estrangement, lifestyle, love and romance, dysfunctional family, bittersweet ...
Time: 60s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Canvas (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A woman's schizophrenia affects her relationships with her husband and son.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, coming of age, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, couple relations, working class, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hospital, teenage life ...
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Belonging (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, touching
Plot: family relations, love affair, family problems, betrayal, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, infidelity, working class, couples ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Nobody Owns Me (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden. A unique and moving story freely based on Åsa ...
Style: touching, bleak, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: working class, parents and children, life turned upside down, youth, family relations, single parent, disorder, family problems, dysfunctional family, children, addiction, parents ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Shadrach (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, independent film, sincere ...
Plot: slavery, african american, old man, segregation, slave, interracial, youth, suburbs, social justice, interracial relations, family relations, racial segregation ...
Time: 1930s, year 1998
Place: virginia, usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Best Day of My Life (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, love and romance, family problems, couples, youth, society, religions or cults, marital discord, gays and lesbians, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Boutique (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, serious, neo noir ...
Plot: lifestyle, friendship, love and romance, downfall, life is a bitch, couples, bittersweet, iranian, singleness, youth, social differences, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Alpha Male (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style: emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, estrangement, unfulfillment, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, couples ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Take Care of My Cat (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The fashionable Hye-joo is focused on her career at a brokerage house. She's making a decent living, but her co-workers look down on her. Tae-hee is sick of living under the thumb of her domineering father. She spends her time doing volunteer ...
Style: lyrical, psychological, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, adulthood, cat, loneliness, self discovery, life is a bitch, couples, parents and children, lifestyle, youth, love and romance, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Fly Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The poignant yet humor filled story about a single mother of a teenager severely impacted by autism, forced to reckon with her daughter's future. As her child becomes an adult, what used to work, no longer does. What will sustain her daughter, ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: autism, nursing, moral dilemma, parents and children, single parent, society, mentally challenged, life is a bitch, social misfits, youth, family problems, child illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Plans for Tomorrow (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Three stories intertwined which occur in a single day. The day Ines discovers she is pregnant, Antonia decides to abandon her family and Marian realizes she is going to die.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: pregnancy, friendship, friends, family problems, couples, family relations, introspection, singleness, woman in danger, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to ...
Style: captivating, touching, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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Time: 80s
Place: illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Crystal River (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The story is of a married woman who, grieving her inability to have children, finds comfort and healing in her friendship with another man. It's about discovering grace in darkness and the unexpected places we find healing.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot: infidelity, friendship, human nature, couples, family problems, mysterious character, love and romance, crumbling marriage, friends, bare chested male, married, woman ...
Time: 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman and her teenage son move back in with her mother to work together in the family bridal business.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, talky, realistic
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
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Swimmers (2005)
Genre: Drama
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Style: sincere, touching, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: youth, small town, introspection, family problems, human nature, family relations, friendship, family in crisis, swimming, dysfunctional family, sex crime, solace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Guilty Hearts (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: looking for love, infidelity, haunted by the past, couple relations, love and romance, couples, friendship, redemption, friends, bittersweet
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Steam (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in the sauna of the local gym, where they gradually get to know one another and bond over their respective trials and tribulations.
Style: serious, talky, touching, emotional, erotic ...
Plot: sauna, widow, introspection, female friendship, life is a bitch, human spirit, self discovery, love and romance, elderly, hopes, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
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Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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